[Seattle-editorial] New blood.

[Opiemg Ruve]

Hey all!
Lend me your ears (ok eyes...)
I've been on the Seattle IMC listserve for a few months now, usually 
glancing at most of the messages, but not contributing in the 
decision-making, mostly because a collective to me means people sitting in a 
circle, not email messages.  Anyway, I see that you all are now going 
through some serious transitions and are lacking in actual bodies.
Well, I was living in Seattle for the last year, contributing to the 
newswire somewhat regularly; now I'm living in Olympia and going to school 
here @ evergreen.  It's great, but after living in various communities and 
working for various collectives, co-ops and nonprofits, I'm feeling like 
school is lacking a bit in terms of 'real' applications--and I know where I 
am located in the world, so I feel like I should be activating instead of 
just philosophizing in school.
That's where the IMC could come in.  I really have a very limited grasp of 
website-creation (I'm learning dreamweaver on my own valition) and I think 
it's important to know how to set things up.  If I were to join in now as a 
volunteer, would my desire to learn be helpful or a hindrance in the process 
of setting up?  The way I see it, it would be an amazing learning 
opportunity to get involved from the beginning, learn archival stuff, 
etc...I have no idea what it would all entail, but I think this knowledge 
would be good to have for selfish reasons (that I would finally be website 
literate) and for the greater good (making a snazzy, user-friendly website). 
  Also I currently have Tuesday nights free--that's the volunteer time 
right?

Also, if a helluva lot of volunteer work is available and needs to be done, 
there's this great part of evergreen that includes individual learning 
contracts; if you know what needs to be worked on over the next couple of 
months, I could maybe arrange some sort of IMC "internship," benefitting the 
collective (having a contracted volunteer guarantees reliability) and me (I 
learn what I want to learn and get college credit for it).
I have this tendency to jump onto sinking ships, thinking that I can save 
them; I realize that you're not sinking, just restructuring, and if the time 
is right for you to accept a new person, I would be more than willing to 
become involved.
Liz

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